This cache of 15,000 late 4th and early 5th century Roman silver and gold coins – the largest ever discovered in the United Kingdom – set treasure-hungry amateur Eric Lawes’ metal-detector bleeping to the tune of £1.75 million.

A precious hoard of Iron Age gold treasures worth an estimated £1 million has been discovered by a first-time metal detector enthusiast near Stirling.

Found, in an Oxfordshire field: the 'lost emperor' who briefly ruled western Europe

Father and son discover 10th century Viking hoard buried in field

Iron Age, about 75-25 BC From Hampshire, southern England

The big roman treasure found with metaldedetctor in Shrpshire